
Photo by Renee Samuels
Pierre Colombet, Gabriel Le Magadure, Mathieu Herzog and Raphaël Merlin,
who make up the magical QUATUOR EBENE, practice to make perfect their Maverick Debut.

Photo by Renee Samuels
Ilya Yakushev practices for his astonishing Maverick debut.

Photo by Renee Samuels
Joel Fan and the Shanghai Quartet rehearse the extraordinary
Piano Quintet In A Minor by Arthur Foote.

Photo by Renee Samuels
Yi-Wen Jiang takes time in the Artists Room to prepare for the triumphant
Saturday concert of the Shanghai Quartet with Joel Fan.
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Photo by Dion Ogust
Delighted jazz fans relax at intermission

Photo by Renee Samuels
Zuill Bailey and Navah Perlman relax in the Artist's Room after their triumphant
concert for the Friends of Maverick.
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Photo by Renee Samuels
Founder Hervey White looks on approvingly as famed
jazz artist Bill Charlap treats the ivory and the ebony to a great riff.

Photo by Renee Samuels
Elizabeth Mitchell and Family entertain
over 500 very happy fans at the most attended Young People’s concert,

Photo by Renee Samuels
Elizabeth Mitchell and Family are all smiles
before their
much-loved Young People’s concert.
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Photo by Renee Samuels
Jon Nakamatsu performing the mesmerizing
Liszt
Three Sonnets from Petrarch on Sunday.

Photo by Renee Samuels
Music Director Alexander Platt performs all the roles in the dual-piano version
of West Side Story as pianists Andrew Russo and
Frederic Chiu (back to the camera) accompany him at Saturday’s
Young People’s Concert.
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Photo by Renee Samuels
ETHEL, the “post-classical string quartet,” provided a rollicking concert
to a thrilled Saturday night crowd!

Photo by Dion Ogust
Perry Beekman captivates theMaverick audience with his
Evening of Bernstein Theatre Songs

Photo by Renee Samuels
Ruby Bar-Illan helps out at Saturday’s Young People’s Concert with Trio Solisti.

Photo by Renee Samuels
Peter Kolkay joins the St. Petersburg String Quartet as they rehearse Russell
Platt’s Quintet for Bassoon and Strings.
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Photo by Renee Samuels
Elizabeth Mitchell and Family give a private concert to the
late-arriving British artists Peter Liversidge and Cassie Howard and their children.

Photo by Renee Samuels
In the Maverick artists' room, a friend of the Amernet String Quartet photographs
cellist Jason Calloway, right, and violist Michael Klotz.

Photo by Renee Samuels
The Borromeo Quartet and Judith Gordon practice in the empty Hall using their
state-of-the-art computers displaying their music.

Photo by Renee Samuels
At the open dress rehearsal, composer James Matheson (left) explains
the details of the world premiere of his Piano Quintet, Borromean Rings to the Borromeo String Quartet,
pianist Judith Gordon and our attentive audience.
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Photo by Renee Samuels
Renowned pianist Joel Fan practices the incredibly rapid portion of the world premiere of the chamber
orchestra version of Daron Hagen's "Seven Last Words,"
as performed that evening by Alexander Platt leading the Maverick Chamber Players.

Photo by Renee Samuels
Alexander Platt leading the Maverick Chamber Players
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Brilliant composer and pianist Fred Hirsch rehearses for his triumphant Saturday night concert.

Baritone Andrew Garland, appearing with the wonderful Amernet String Quartet,
was entreated to repeat Samuel Barber's DOVER BEACH in its entirety by our totally enthralled audience!

Photo by Paul Clancy
Despite the torrential downpour and violent storm, cued by her dynamic playing of Ysaÿe's “Ballade,”
Lara St. John kept dry and earned 3 standing ovations in her exciting Maverick debut
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Photo by Simon Russell
Pedja Muzijevic executes a lightening fast musical move in Schumann's Carnaval

Photo by Simon Russell
Alexander Platt elucidates an elegant musical detail at Pedja
Muzijevic's triumphant Saturday Night concert.
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Photo by Renee Samuels
Parker Quartet rehearse for their Maverick debut July 11 2010

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Making it perfect: The Shanghai Quartet practices
the Frank Bridge "Noveletten" before their capacity Sunday concert.
SEE THE REHEARSAL

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Violinist Kikuei Ikeda studies his score before
Sunday's sold-out concert of the Tokyo String Quartet

Photo by Renee Samuels
Violist Kazuhide Isomura and cellist Clive
Greensmith enjoy the gift of homemade sushi by
Maverick's great friend, Atsuko Shimojo.

Photo by Renee Samuels
Master musician Fred Hand at Maverick's spring concert
at the Photosensualis Gallery.
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Photo by Renee Samuels
Richard Engquist, seen here with accompanist Annie Lebeaux, smiling after their triumphant
sold-out autumn benefit concert at Photosensualis.
photo by Renee Samuels
The Shanghai Quartet rehearses at the Hall.

photo by Renee Samuels
August 30 2008: Alexander Platt reads the texts for Aaron Jay Kernis' Simple Songs that were
performed with the composer present in our sold-out Saturday night audience.
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photo by Renee Samuels
Marilyn Crispell, improvisatory pianist and Woodstock “legend” captivates her
delighted audience at Saturday’s Young People’s concert.

photo by Renee Samuels
Alexander Platt & Frederick Chiu
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photo by Burt Weinstein
Maria Bachmann rehearses in the Artist’s room before her concert with Trio Solisti.
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photo by Renee Samuels
American composers | left to right, John Corigliano, Mark Adamo, and Russell Platt

photo to by Burt Weinstein
Smiling Maverick ticket holders line up for a Sunday concert.
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photo by Renee Samuels
Hervey White looks on as Metropolitan Opera’s Assistant Manager, Artistic,
Sarah Billinghurst, right, visits with Maverick Board Treasurer Helen Bader, Marjorie Normand and Katie.

photo by Renee Samuels
Ruby Bar-Illan enjoys her first Young People's Concert!
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photo by Renee Samuels
Maurice and Alison Hinchey visit cellist
Zuill Bailey and pianist Simone Dinnerstein in the Artist's Room
after Saturday's concert.

photo by Renee Samuels
Nancy Cohn, from the New York State Council on the Arts, Capital Grants Division,
visits Maverick. She is seated with David Wiebe, Susan Rizwani, and
David Segal. Alexander Platt and Adrienne Owen have their backs to the camera.
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photo by Simon Russell
David Del Tredici is seen here in his New York studio

Alexander Platt is seen here conducting the Brooklyn Philharmonic in
May for their celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Brooklyn Bridge.
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Follow this link to some wonderful seasonal images of the Maverick Concert Hall
by Andrew Von Schlapp
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